Stile Project
Encyclopedia
Stile Project is a website
founded by writer and webmaster Jonathan Biderman who writes under the alias Jay Stile. Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, collectively called stileNET. On December 2, 2010, Stile announced that he had sold Stile Project after 12 years. According to the farewell message on the website, he founded the site when he was only a teenager.
referred to Stileproject.com as a "shock site
" in a 2001 article. The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any taboo or depravity that could be digitized." In the early 2000s, as "the Web's leading repository of crude filth--probably the most reliable source of tastelessness in the history of the Internet," its content was criticized for its shock value. Particularly, a video showing a Korean man killing, cooking, and eating a kitten was highly publicized and denounced by PETA
, who sought a Federal investigation, which did not occur.
Open source
software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images". As the site evolved, surviving purported webhost troubles, a major hacking incident and by 2004 purportedly "[not] grossing out teenagers anymore," the Stile Project's content grew increasingly pornographic.
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
founded by writer and webmaster Jonathan Biderman who writes under the alias Jay Stile. Stile Project has grown into a large network of counter-culture, amateur adult entertainment and current-events sites, forums, and more, collectively called stileNET. On December 2, 2010, Stile announced that he had sold Stile Project after 12 years. According to the farewell message on the website, he founded the site when he was only a teenager.
Awards
Stile Project won Webby Awards in 2000 for Weird site and People's Voice winner.Content
WiredWired (magazine)
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referred to Stileproject.com as a "shock site
Shock site
A shock site is a website that is intended to be offensive, disgusting and/or disturbing to its viewers, containing materials of high shock value which is also considered distasteful and crude, and is generally of a pornographic, scatological, extremely violent, insulting, painful, profane, or...
" in a 2001 article. The website assembled "vast visual libraries of any taboo or depravity that could be digitized." In the early 2000s, as "the Web's leading repository of crude filth--probably the most reliable source of tastelessness in the history of the Internet," its content was criticized for its shock value. Particularly, a video showing a Korean man killing, cooking, and eating a kitten was highly publicized and denounced by PETA
Peta
Peta can refer to:* peta-, an SI prefix denoting a factor of 1015* Peta, Greece, a town in Greece* Peta, the Pāli word for a Preta, or hungry ghost in Buddhism* Peta Wilson, an Australian actress and model* Peta Todd, English glamour model...
, who sought a Federal investigation, which did not occur.
Open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software and porn were "memorialized in J. Stile's hoard of erotic Linux Slut images". As the site evolved, surviving purported webhost troubles, a major hacking incident and by 2004 purportedly "[not] grossing out teenagers anymore," the Stile Project's content grew increasingly pornographic.
Associations
- Stile is a former member of the underground art sceneComputer art sceneThe phrase computer art scene, or artscene for short, refers to a community of individuals and groups that are both interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork.-Early computer art:...
groups ACiDACiD ProductionsACiD Productions is a digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development...
and iCEICE AdvertisementsiCE Advertisements is a digital art group formed in 1991. Although the expanded title is rarely ever used, iCE is an acronym for Insane Creators Enterprise...
. His specialty was designing ANSIANSI artANSI art is a computer art form that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS and Unix environments...
logos for art group projects and bulletin board systems in the early 1990s. - In 2006, Canadian poet Daniel Scott TysdalDaniel Scott TysdalDaniel Scott Tysdal is a Canadian poet whose work approaches the lyric mode with an experimental spirit. In June 2007, Tysdal received the ReLit Award for Poetry....
cited Stile Project (December 2004) as a stanza in his poem Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method.